John,
It looks like a news group is impossible if we do it within the USELESSNET
technology. First Step Research, for security reasons, will not allow
anyone from the outside to look at news groups they host.
well, the moscow.* groups are accessable by pointing your news reader to
news.moscow.com (but its a hack solution....). I'll talk to the sysadmins
at the U's. there SHOULD be a way to pull this off.
....
There doesn't seem to be any newsgroup configuration that serves the
geographical community of the Palouse, while allowing access from the
different Internet providers. Cyberspace does not respect geographical
space.
Please invent a solution that will reflect geography onto cyberology.
We'll give it a go....be patient....
The alternative would be a html site for a "news group" accessible from
anywhere, without being advertised everywhere. The problem there is that
most of the vision2020 subscribers do not have ppp accounts, they mostly
have text based remote terminal accounts from the universities.
Time for the U's to open up to PPP access I think that would move things
forward in great steps.
Bottom line: a listserver seems to be the only thing that works. We just
have to try to follow the threads. The "subject" line makes an ok handle
for threads.
Ok, I won't complain again. But I'll TRY to make it better.
johnt